Day: February 19, 2021

Fellini, Scorsese and the end of cinema

Martin Scorsese has just published an article about Fellini at Harper’s magazine, but which also discusses a bit the current sad state of cinema. Today, he says, everything has become merely indistinct “content”, and the magic of cinema and its artistic auteurs has been lost. I tend to agree. When I was a teenager, I…

“Dark Fairy Tales”: a new release

The last book release by Contrarium is “Dark Fairy Tales”, a wonderful collection of lesser-known fairy tales. We chose stories that were a bit darker in tone, but not all are tragic and some are humorous too. The volume includes three melancholy and not so well-known stories by Hans Christian Andersen, two darkly humorous stories…